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Day 4108: The iCASS Platform

A Framework for LCD

The iCASS Platform is a framework for landscape conservation design: a holistic, yet flexible systems-based approach that encourages innovation to solve societal challenges.

The iCASS Platform is a synthesis of adaptation planning concepts and methodologies. It’s a set of five attributes — innovation, convene stakeholders, assess conditions, spatial design, and strategy design — and nine principles. The iCASS Platform is organized around four cornerstones of innovation: people, purpose, process, and product. It emphasizes a design process that is inclusive, interdisciplinary, interactive, and informative.

By providing organizational guidance to stakeholders on the overall design process, while allowing for local customization and innovation to unfold, the iCASS heuristic offers practical and flexible guidance for practitioners to follow.